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Power control and carrier synchronization in a cellular mobile telephone system

Assignee: NEC Corp
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Filing: 1998-01-15
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2018-01-15
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Abstract

Abstract In order to reproduce a highly precise carrier for a coherent detection in a cellular mobile CDMA system, a first stage carrier estimation is performed by using pilot symbols inserted into a received signal and having a known code pattern, a data symbol train of the received signal is preparatively detected by using the estimated carrier and a second stage carrier estimation is performed for the received signal by using the detected data symbol train and the pilot symbols.

Inventors

  • 👤 Dobzica Vasic

Bibliographic Details

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CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04W; H04W52/00; H04W52/04; H04W52/06; H04W52/08; H04B; H04B7/00; H04B7/24; H04B7/26; H04L; H04L1/00; H04L1/02; H04L1/06; H04L27/00; H04L27/18; H04L27/22; H04L27/233; H04L27/2332; H04W52/38; H04W52/42; H04L27/0014; H04L2027/0044; H04L2027/0046; H04L2027/0083; H04L2027/0089; H04L2027/0093; H04L2027/0095; H04W52/12

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 17
Claim 1
Independent Claim 112 words
A cellular mobile telephone system comprising a cell device and mobile devices for mutually transmitting and receiving information signal, said cell device being provided with channel estimation means for estimating carriers of received signals from said mobile devices, said channel estimation means comprising: first estimation means for performing a first stage carrier estimation from pilot symbols having a known code pattern and inserted into the received signal; pre-detection means for preparatively detecting a data symbol train of the received signal by using an estimated carrier; and second estimation means for performing a second carrier estimation with respect to the received signal by using the pre-detected data symbol train and the pilot symbol.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 38 words
A cellular mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cell device comprises coherent detection means for coherently detecting the received signal from said mobile device by using the carrier estimated by said channel estimation means.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 78 words
A cellular mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in order to regulate a transmission power of said mobile device, said channel estimation means comprises calculation means for calculating a ratio Eb/Io of signal energy to interference power spectrum strength per bit of the received signal from said mobile device by using the estimated carrier and means for generating a power adjustment command corresponding to a deviation of the calculated ratio from a predetermined ratio Eb/Io.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 34 words
A cellular mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 3, wherein said mobile device comprises means responsive to the power adjustment command for regulating a power of a transmission signal from said mobile device.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 30 words
A cellular mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the information signal is transmitted and received by using a code division multiple access (CDMA) spread spectrum communication signal.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 70 words
A cellular mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 1, wherein: a plurality of said first estimation means and a plurality of said second estimation means are provided correspondingly to a plurality of communication paths of a channel; and said pre-detection means comprises means for compensating for a phase and amplitude of the received signal and diversity-combining them and means for determining data symbols from the diversity combined received signal.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 98 words
A cellular mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 6, wherein said channel estimation means comprises: means for obtaining estimated values of the ratio of signal power to interference power of the plurality of said communication paths; means for calculating a ratio of signal to interference of the channel from the estimated ratio of the signal power to interference power; EbIo calculation means for calculating Eb/Io from the ratio of signal to interference; and power adjustment command generator means for generating a control bit for a closed loop power control from the EbIo from said EbIo calculation means.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 43 words
A cellular mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first carrier estimation means estimates a carrier by interpolating a carrier of a data symbol portion other than the pilot symbols with the measured channel value obtained by the pilot symbols.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 43 words
A cellular mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said pre-detection means comprises hard decision means for performing a hard decision of the data symbols and means for multiplexing the data symbols obtained from the hard decision with known pilot symbols.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim 23 words
A cellular mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 9, wherein said hard decision means detects the data symbols by a coherent detection.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim 61 words
A cellular mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second estimation means comprises rotation means for rotating the samples of a signal, dividing means for dividing the samples to a plurality of groups, accumulating and averaging means for accumulating and averaging the samples of every group and second interpolation means for interpolating the accumulated and averaged sample values.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim 40 words
A cellular mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 11, wherein, in order to remove a modulation, said rotation means multiply the signal sample with a conjugate value or the pilot symbols to provide a condition of the sample accumulation.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim 41 words
A cellular mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 11, wherein said dividing means divides the rotated signal samples from said rotation means to approximate the signals in the respective groups to quasi static signals in periods of the respective groups.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim 49 words
A cellular mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 11, wherein said accumulating and averaging means calculates the estimated carrier values of the respective groups by using the accumulation and averaging of the samples to reduce an influence of accompanying noise and interference to thereby improve the estimation performance.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim 52 words
A cellular mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 11, wherein said second interpolation means interpolates the estimated carrier values given by said accumulating and averaging means, to obtain an estimated value of the carrier signal for compensation for fading distortion, diversity-reception, multiplication for synthesis with maximum ratio and actual coherent detection.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim 57 words
A cellular mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 11, further comprising signal power estimation means for estimating a signal power by using an output of said second interpolation means and interference power estimation means for estimating an interference power by using an output of said sample rotation means and the output of said second interpolation means.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim 64 words
A cellular mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 16, further comprising: EbIo calculation means for calculating a whole Eb/Io by using the signal powers and the interference powers estimated for the plurality of the communication paths; and power adjustment command generator means for generating a control bit for a closed loop power control by using the Eb/Io obtained by said EbIo calculation means.

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